Will see how the day develops but first, flowers.

 Slightly hazier today and warmer the clouds have retreated from the morning and hence the haze and breeze. I am planning on going to HD to get the raised bed soil so I can plant the tomatoes in the ground.

The little single rosebush with the cute pink flowers has lots of flowers compared to last year so will try to snag some rose hips in the winter. There was a Mourning Cloak butterfly flitting around the lawn area earlier, since I was walking Rocky the cat was going in the opposite direction than the butterfly and best I could do is a very zoomed shot of it sitting on the ficus bush. Rocky ignored the butterfly for the most part.

 

 

The Angel Face has three flowers and a bud or two on it. Didn't get a chance to smell it due to cat but was just wonderful to see it blooming.

The downstairs neighbor's epiphyllum is blooming! Huge flower bigger than my hand for sure (Rocky's butt for reference). There's another bud or two on it as well and am not surprised, that's a perfect location for that plant. Dappled shade with brighter sun in the afternoon.

 

Segueing into my  garden, definitely dry there and armed up with my nozzle, clippers and gloves. Now that I have the means to bring down just a few tools and things it's much easier to have them with me just in case. Cilantro is blooming nicely, those flowers are very similar to dill, parsley and all that family, hoping the Mourning Cloak found them and the other cilantro flowers. The tomatoes are now shading the lettuce on the right side, which is just fine and perfect actually.

Full bed and the onions before watering. It's interesting how you can have a row of identically planted seeds and two or three are just, 'meh', compared to the rest of the row.

The idea of cutting the onion tops was to get more leaves and make the bulb a bit bigger, here's hoping. Speaking of bigger, the peas are coming along but still not full size pods yet. Hoping they'll be pretty much done in the next month so they don't interfere with the tomato I plan on putting there.

 

Tomatoes are ready... glad I planted that one tomato against the trellis (for now, after realizing it may be way too crowded against the fence in the future). That little lettuce is just busting out! It's getting more shade and fertilizer than the one in the front of the bed so the leaves are growing bigger sooner. I'll be harvesting that sooner than the tomato for sure.

Speaking of harvesting, I decided to cut the tops on the taller garlic to also try and encourage the bulb on those guys. I hung the other garlic I pulled on the front porch and just checked, wind must have knocked it down. Likely fell in the bushes below. Oh well. Surprise garlic will grow there in the future hehe. Might go down and check later to see if I can find it.

 

And now, I decided to move the tomatoes to their eventual permanent places. I put the yellowish one by itself in the south bed. Two peppers will flank that with the onions in the front.

Three of the larger ones will go in the north bed, kind of tucked to the back so there's room for the other two peppers in front, and the last tomato will go next to where the cilantro is now. Obviously can't plant that one right now and it's a bit too close to the other two besides. I might shift that one to where the peas are and use the trellis for it.

 

I decided to stake up the two tomatoes already growing in the bed. I jammed them in as far as I could go (before hitting wood from the logs) and right up close to the stem. As they grow I'll not only twine them around but also use the green wire to hold them up. Here's hoping they don't get any bigger than the stake, it's not that stable unfortunately. I made sure to get the stakes as upright as possible without leaning too much.

If I were to use the tomato cages they would be right on top of each other and also interfere with the garlic nearby. Stake was really the best choice for them.

 

I'm hoping that by the time this season is over I will be able to get four more bags of soil to refill and refresh that bed for the next growing season.